// speaking
I speak at conferences and meetups about distributed systems, Kubernetes, SQL Server performance, engineering leadership, and the occasional paper circuit. Slides and recordings are linked where available.
If you’d like me to speak at your event (you’ll never need to ask me twice), the fastest path is Sessionize, LinkedIn or just reach out directly.
Lessons from a delayed Kubernetes adoption — initial misconceptions, picking a distribution, and architecting for scale. The story behind the eventual win.
Using Kubernetes to simplify ML workflows: automation, scaling training jobs, and managing GPU resources without the headache.
Nomad as a versatile orchestrator for modern and legacy workloads — simple, flexible, scalable, and a real alternative to Kubernetes.
An advanced look at the newest C# performance features and low-level intrinsics — for developers who need optimization at scale.
How we took a 10-hour SQL Server Service Broker process down to 10 minutes by rethinking the architecture.
Honest reflections on lessons learned and mistakes made as a CTO — the things that don't show up in the job description.
What real production downtime taught us. Postmortem analysis, blameless culture, and designing systems that recover.
A 4-hour workshop on the lightweight Kubernetes distribution. From laptop to production-ready cluster, no Java required.
A candid take on late cloud adoption — budget constraints, legacy systems, and migration strategies that actually worked.
Hardware-accelerated SIMD in C#. Span, Memory, and how to start leveraging hardware intrinsics without losing your mind.
The CNCF landscape has 900+ projects. Here's how to actually navigate it and adopt cloud-native at organizational scale.
Using Query Store to find and fix query regressions as data grows in production — not just at deploy time.
Cloud native, demystified. The principles that give you scale and resilience even when you can't (or won't) move to a hyperscaler.
A full workshop on DMVs and Query Store — diagnosing, optimizing, and maintaining SQL Server in the real world.
LLMs as developer assistants — what they're great at, where they hurt you, and the data-privacy and bias questions that come with them.
Real-time database diagnostics with DMVs. Performance insights and system optimization without paying for a third-party tool.
Query Store walked through with real cases. You don't need Enterprise Edition to find and fix the queries that are killing you.
Process dumps for elusive production bugs — across languages and operating systems. The skill that pays off at 2am.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for real business context. How to combine product APIs with open-source models without the magic incantations.
Hands-on workshop building paper circuits — conductive tape, batteries, lights, and interactive glowing creations.